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David Cameron’s attempts to lobby top officials on behalf of Greensill revealed
The Treasury’s most senior civil servant has told MPs that he received text messages and a phone call from David Cameron on behalf of the failed financial firm Greensill Capital.
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What could Alex Salmond’s new Alba party mean for the Scottish election?
He has pledged to deliver a “supermajority” for Scottish independence and put himself back in frontline politics.
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FactCheck: lateral flow testing in England’s schools
Could negative results give false reassurance?
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‘More attention’ needed on long Covid, says doctor diagnosed with the condition
We spoke to Dr Nathalie MacDermott, who is a paediatrics infectious diseases expert at King’s College London. At the start of the pandemic she was regularly on this programme helping us understand it. She caught the virus and has now been diagnosed with Long Covid. She had been fit and healthy, working long shifts as…
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FactCheck: minister claims UK has ‘highest vaccine acceptance’ in world
We don’t know yet.
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FactCheck: Keir Starmer did want to stay in the European Medicines Agency, but it wouldn’t have affected the vaccine rollout
“Keir accepts that, on this occasion, the Prime Minister was referring to old comments about the European Medicines Agency and Keir admits he was wrong and made a mistake in his response.”
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FactCheck: Johnson claims Starmer ‘would have joined’ EU vaccine scheme
Was that ever the Labour leader’s position?
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Lockdown taking ‘devastating toll’ on young people’s mental health
The lockdown is taking a “devastating toll” on the mental health of young people, according to a major survey by the Prince’s Trust and shown exclusively to this programme.
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FactCheck: government emails cast doubt on safety of school testing plan
Pupils and staff in England can avoid self-isolating after contact with a covid case if they take seven daily tests.
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FactCheck: can you have two different vaccines and is it safe?
With two coronavirus vaccines now available in the UK, FactCheck readers have started to ask: is it possible to get the first dose from one manufacturer and the second from another? And is it safe?
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FactCheck Q&A: how much coronavirus vaccine do we have?
All the evidence suggests the number of vaccine doses available for immediate use falls well short of the 40 million that we were originally supposed to have by this stage.
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British inventor wins $1m prize to develop ‘smart’ wheelchair
A Scottish designer and entrepreneur, who used to work for this programme, has just been awarded a one million dollar prize to develop his innovative “smart” wheelchair.
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FactCheck: how reliable are the UK’s coronavirus lateral flow tests?
SAGE papers suggest around half of positive cases are missed when the tests are done by non-experts.
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FactCheck: Conservatives keep repeating dodgy NHS election claims
£34bn for the NHS and 40 new hospitals? There’s more to these claims than meets the eye.
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FactCheck: government won’t say how much tiered restrictions will cost economy
Official analysis published last night doesn’t shed any light.